Wozniak wrote:
acrossthelines wrote:
The next person who asks me, "Why?" when I say I've never had a boyfriend is going to be met with a, "Because," because I'm tired of answering, "Because I want to be," and having the person not comprehend it at all and ask more questions. I know it's only going to get worse as I go through my 20's. Whatever. It's all right for a man to be single after the age of 18, but a woman? OH NO! OLD MAID! Shut up and stop asking me questions.
obligatory smart ass response:
so why havent you had a boyfriend?
lol Every time anybody says something like that, you know somebody's gonna come out and be annoying on purpose, making it not annoying.
I don't tell my friends ANYTHING that annoys me, outside of people being absolutely stupid and ignorant about homeschooling, because half of them were at some point as well so it's fun to caricature ourselves together.
Rant time because I seriously love ranting: I roll my eyes so hard when I hear people worried about socialization with homeschooled kids. Guess what? When I was a kid, all I had were my brothers, my cousins, and the neighbor kids, whom I knew my entire life anyway so they were basically cousins, too, and we were all homeschooled, and I turned out FINE and so have all the rest. I don't think it's any different than kids having the same group of friends. My family wasn't typical with that, anyway. Most join all sorts of community organizations to have their kids meet other kids; mine didn't, but that's not the norm for homeschooled families. As far as the education goes? I learned to read at two (and haven't stopped; thank you to my father) and could have started first grade at three, but my parents waited till I was five so I'd only be a year ahead of other kids my age and fit in better with other kids at my grade level (ended up getting held back and repeating ninth grade when I entered school because the principal said I was too young for tenth, whatever), and if I'd stayed homeschooled through high school, I would have graduated college at seventeen or eighteen because I would have taken college classes all throughout high school. I'm positive I could have gotten A's at fourteen in every college class I've taken so far. Homeschooled kids outperform kids schooled both in the public system and in private schools in every single category. Colleges prefer them, especially Ivy League schools, because they do so well. I hate the education system, anyway. To me it seems they teach what to think rather than how to think, and I hate that. I also hate the system of testing; that doesn't teach a thing, just teaches kids how to memorize things for a day and then forget them.
I just remember being a kid and having people ask me these questions that I knew were absolutely stupid and ignorant even as a six-year-old. Every time homeschooling pops up in some media report it's basically one misnomer after another, and they take themselves so seriously, referring to kids as simply not going to school rather than homeschooled, like it's inferior when in reality it's by far the opposite as far as education goes, and you get people all concerned about socialization and THE WEIRDNESS OMG and it's like give me a break. I swear people forget what it's like to be a child and how children actually learn the basic things in life; it does not happen in school. They don't understand kids at all. Also, in New York it's kind of annoying to homeschool. I had to take so many standardized tests every year to make sure I was keepin' up. Got 99th percentile in every category on every last one I ever took, which continued on into high school with the ones you have to take there. And all the paperwork my parents had to fill out... It's as bad as California, but New York's basically the most regulated state in general lol.
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My cat Grant, who is the best cat ever and one of the only ones I've ever liked, is thirteen this year, and my dog is eight. I never want either to die. (The other cat, however, that is seven... well, I wouldn't care.) Grant was the runt of the litter, and when we got him as a kitten he could curl up and sleep in the palm of my mother's hand. :3 He was very sick and would have died had my mother not convinced my father that we take him; it was because she bathed him and took care of him every single day that he made it. He was so tiny, even to my 7-year-old self. Now he's the best cat in the world.
I'm too wary of the entire system, which is sad because we have one of the best in the world (one of the worst prison systems, though). Sometimes it does take years to make an arrest because they want to make sure everything is air tight before proceeding. The cases where people are arrested right away usually, to me, indicate either REALLY OBVIOUS guilt or innocence + an overzealous DA in it for the potential publicity because they are after all politicians/a police department rushing to get the entire investigation over and doing a crap job of it jumping on the first person they suspect, basically terrible work. 